Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Auden, W. H.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

12.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

17.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

35.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary